Hello Vince!   
      
   17 Jul 15 14:27, you wrote to all:   
      
    VC> I have been having problems using mbse with Mageia v4 (& v3) since   
    VC> migrating over from Mandriva 2011 in that for any new user (connecting   
    VC> to the system using telnet) having entered username with the system   
    VC> creating the linux and bbs account then requests password the password   
    VC> setup fails with a shadow file busy.  This is not the case as when   
    VC> testing for it via "sudo lsof | grep shadow" produces nothing.   
      
    VC> So the question - would ALL mbse sysops please report here what Distro   
    VC> including version they are using and what mbse version and confirm if   
    VC> that have had new users registering since using along with the date   
    VC> (MM/YY) of last registered user.   
      
   I'm running under Slackware 14.0 currently, and have had no problems with new    
   users registering.  The most recent one I saw in my quick glance at the user    
   file was in January 2015.   
      
    VC> If you have not had anyone since setup please provide your BBS contact   
    VC> details and I will try via telnet, or you can do a test yourself again   
    VC> (using telnet localhost etc) and set up a test user and let me know.   
      
    VC> If others are suffering from the same problem then we need to take a   
    VC> close look at the code that deals with this and fix it!   
      
   I think this is Mageia related; when I have some spare time and a machine to    
   try it, I will do a test setup and see what I can figure out.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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